Jon Voight Vents On Obama On Eve Of ‘Ray Donovan’ Season Debut

With Showtime‘s Ray Donovanset to debut season 2 tonight, star Jon Voight, one of Hollywood’s highest-profile conservatives, used the bully pulpit of Fox News to vent about Barack Obama’s Middle East policy and more, as shown on the attached video below.

On the show, Voight plays the title character’s Very Bad Dad, ex-con Mickey Donovan. On Fox News Channel‘s Huckabee, he takes the role of Very Mad American, talking with host Mike Huckabee and reading from a statement about Obama in Iraq (or not), U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.) campaigning on reproductive rights, Democratic boycotts of Dinesh D’Souza over his latest film and more.

i have never heard an educated man spew out so much hatred and lies, and he did not even vince, neither did huckabee. he is not preaching patriotism, he is preaching fascism! ipersonaly think they both have dementia setting in

Sanity Clause • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Uhhhm… no. The “bad parent” label comes from his having actually been a BAD PARENT! Your attempt to try to try to avoid the documented facts of his philandering, abandoning his kids, and their accounts of his behavior for the last 40 years by attempting to twist those details into a condemnation of Liberalism is just as clearly proof that your brand of Conservatism is a real mental disorder…
Do seek professional help.

Jack • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Perhaps a reference to his well-documented sour relationship with Angelina Jolie?

Do you enjoy thinking the world is out to get you fair-minded, oh so righteous Conservatives?

Ronald • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

This irony is scrumptious!

Anonymous • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Um, try googling him as a father.

Righty • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Just more proof that while Conservatives believe Democrats are wrong, Democrats think Conservatives are evil and/or dumb. What’s amazing is that they can be so arrogant while simultaneously electing dems who are driving the country into the ground.

Democrat • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

This is hilarious! It’s like a Colbert-style bit, right?

Vato Loco • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

The midnight cowboy indeed

Roger • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

This should drive the low information voters nuts. How long until he’s on Kimmel apologizing for being a racist?

ByronTaz • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Bully? Did I miss something? Has Deadline ever called his daughter, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Alex Baldwin, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Jon Stewart, Fallon, Letterman, etc. etc, etc a bully for saying something against a Republican? They throw mud ever day, but when Jon says something against the LIbs. he’s on his “bully pulpit” LOL

chip • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

lol what a moron.

Anonymous • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

I believe that America allows all people to view their opinions and viewpoints, even when we disagree.

1now • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Fox News couldn’t at least spring for an empty chair for his rant?

Karen • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

God bless him it’s so great to hear a proud America TELL THE TRUTH about the BS our country is going through- it’s so nice to hear intelligence speak! And thank you Governor Huckabee for being on OUR side, I’m extremely proud you’re a fellow Arkansan.
For those who don’t see the heartbreaking trauma this country is in which monkey are you, the blind, the deaf, or the dumber than shit?

Hank • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

The truth is that it was George Bush who agreed to remove American troops from Iraq before Obama even took office. Sorry but the facts tell a different story from your ignorant propaganda, but then you’re used to that by now aren’t you?

Anonymous • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Yes sadly I am, from democrats like you.

Indiana boy in CA • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

He’s not the only one in Hollywood who despises the “tolerant” Liberal agenda here. I’m not yet at the level of JV to speak out like that but God knows I think it. It’s a shame we have to hide in the shadows because we don’t support Obama’s policies.

Hank • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Oh yes because it’s only “tolerant” when it applies to you. Everyone has to tolerate you denying gays civil rights or refusing employees access to birth control or discriminating against immigrants. As long as its someone else “hiding in the shadows” you don’t care.

LeeS • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Thank you Jon Voight for showing your true nature! Now a more deserving Emmy nominee will win supporting actor in a drama.

You should not have been nominated for that crappy performance and show.

Chuck D. • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Are you living in outer space? Great nomination. Well deserved.

Anonymous • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

LOL what a senile old cook!

Pete • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

I have been told very plainly by a producer friend (?) that he will dissolve our so-called friendship if I continue to voice my dislike of the current administration. He even went so far as to imply I am racist for disliking Obama. I gotta get outta this town.

PHOONGDAN • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

He sounds like a crazy old conspiracy coot. LOL

nyguy • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Maybe Voight can talk to the chair at the 2016 convention.

independent • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

someone has the guts to speak the truth…. thats America…

Anonymous • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

He was squealing like a pig. PTSD from that river trip.

Bob the builder • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Any time a celebrity feels the need to tell me their political views – liberal or conservative – I tend to tune them right out. Just because you’ve made a living playing other characters on the screen doesn’t mean anyone is actually interested in your personal political musings.

D. Johnson • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Democrat, Republican, Independent: The world is not as reductive as these talking heads seem to make it. Living a life and dealing with many people and cultures is a complicated process.

Has Obama made mistakes? Yes. Did George W. Bush make mistakes? Yes. But at the end of the day, most people and public servants do try to do what they think is best for the country. We can disagree on the policies, but we need to stop demonizing the people and politicians that choose to stick their collective necks out to serve and mediate the many different interests that run through our society and our world.

I am disgusted with neocon right wing nuts as much as I am disgusted with tree hugging uber liberals. Compromise and critical thinking are what is needed to solve the world’s problems, not blind ideology.

fr • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

only smart comment on here. thanks.

Hank • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Typical back seat blanket condemnation: Every mistake is equal, we must appease every worthless opinion when forming government policy no mater what the consequences (because that’s what compromise is now), nobody can be wrong and nobody can be right, and nobody is better than anyone else as long as they have even the slightest flaw.

Nobody except you apparently. The very fact that you look down on both extremes proves you don’t think every stance on an issue is valid. The only person we should be listening to is you. But of course you’re never going to offer any real solutions, you’re just going to keep judging everyone else because they can’t. You are nothing but an oblivious, arrogant hypocrite who will never contribute anything beyond judgmental comments on news articles. Now either prove me wrong or shut the hell up.

Chuck D. • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Jon speaks what most Hollywood libs are too dense to comprehend…Go Jon.

Anonymous • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Exactly!

Shadowman • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

First of all, the Iraq war was started by republican, George Bush over WOMD, that never existed in the first place! Instead of going after the people who caused 911. Our young men and women who died in Iraq, died to make American oil barons richer! Tell us Americans how it is, that after we freed oil rich Iraq, that oil prices went sky high? How is it when we have one of the largest reserves of oil in the world, that we’re paying as much as $5.00 or more for a gallon of gasoline in some states here in America? The answer plain and simple, is greed by the American owned oil companies, using turmoil and unrest, which they fuel in the middle east, stoking the flames of chaos to cause and maintain unrest and uncertainty in the middle east and hike up the price of oil.

Anonymous • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

So right Shadowman

Oliver • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Putting aside his politics, which admittedly I do not share, his story line on Ray Donovan is really undermining the series. It was such a great show when it was about Ray as a “Hollywood Fixer,” all the Donovan family/Boston history plot lines are boring. I watch the series now just to see Liev Schreiber being awesome, but the show isn’t living up to it’s potential. I appreciate that sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is a very important issue, but as a plot line, it just feels really out of place on this show. I don’t care a whit about the Bunchy character, to be perfectly honest, the entire extended Donovan family ads nothing to the show, although Eddie Marsan is an incredible actor and is giving an amazing performance. I wish the Ray character was single and an orphan with no siblings.

Who Asked You Anyway • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Rather than google him as a father why not try him as a defendant in a lawsuit with Laura Pels. Another good match is Steven Paul, his business partner in the past – actually I believe Steven’ mother was his manager as well. There is so much dirty laundry.

kittyMack • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

It’s a pity he doesn’t understand the Middle East, or the fact that Bush pulled us into Iraq to being with. I’m beginning to understand why Jolie was formerly estranged from her father due to his public statements that were more self-aggrandizing than thoughtful. Sheesh!

Nicholas • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

BTW, if the right wants to claim Jon Voight as a reasoned explicator of the truth, they can have him. Enjoy.

Steffi • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Will not watch the show. When I see Voight I won’t see his character, I will see Voight, and that’s such a turnoff.

Clarice Lowery • on Jul 13, 2014 5:23 pm

Anyone who can sit through a Dinesh D’Souza film without slamming their head repeatedly against a wall – much less go on television to proclaim the greatness of the man, and his “work” – needs either intensive therapy, or to go back to school. I pushed myself to listen to what Mr. Voigt has to say. The fact that he began with a tribute to, and defense of, such an imbecilic, corrupt, and utterly foolish person tells me all I need to know.